*Ryan Cherwinski. He thought he could just walk by Emelia Holden, grab her butt, and keep it movin’ like it never even happened. Unfortunately he didn’t realize that Emily don’t play that and she instantly made him realize he just effed up.
As you can see in the pic above (and the video at EURthisNthat), Holden, 21, didn’t hesitate to take matters into her own hands when Cherwinski groped her during her shift at Vinnie Van Go-Go’s in Savannah, Georgia on June 30. Holden immediately turns around and grabs him by his collar and slams him into a counter.
“I looked at him and I said, ‘You don’t touch me, motherf—–!’ ” Holden tells PEOPLE. “I didn’t even think, I just reacted. I don’t know how I reacted the way I did. I’ve never done that before.”
Holden says she had just finished taking an order when the man assaulted her. At first, she says, she couldn’t fathom that a stranger would grab her in such a way.
“When I felt that happen, my first thought was that it was one of my friends … it was a really intimate touch,” she says. “His hand went further than it should have so I was thinking, ‘There’s no way a stranger just did that.’”
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After defending herself, Holden instructed a coworker to call the police. Cherwinski, of Palm Bay, Florida, was arrested and charged with sexual battery, a Savannah Police Department spokeswoman tells PEOPLE.
“The guy claimed that he was just trying to push me out of the way and, ‘Oh, I barely touched you.’ Once the police saw the video, they immediately arrested him. There was no doubt that he did it,” Holden says, adding that customers nearby gave her high-fives.
She says that she was very happy when police cuffed and arrested her groper.
“It actually made me really happy,” she tells PEOPLE. “I knew something like that would happen eventually. I’m just happy that it was handled.”
You see the pic of the pervert grabbing Emelia above, but check out the video at EURthisNthat.com for Emelia’s TAKEDOWN!
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